EE ——————————— “7 INK SLINGS. _ —What's the use of worrying if you don't see the comet. This is not the last Pegs time around for it. —Was it Neptune, or Jupiter, or Saturn, or Uranus that took the comet's tail? Surely old Mother Earth had no use for it. . —=Now that’s what Governor MARSHALL, of Indiana, gets for licking ToM TAGGART for Senator. TAGGART has declared for . =A cabin was always a cabin until the hamed to live in one commence to cackle about their home. —Anywayit wasn’t a woman who claim- ed she was one hundred and thirty-one years old and when put to the test could —Two more big battleships and six torpedo boat destroyers are to be added 0 our navy, but Congress hasn't yet been bie to add a single thing to our larder. ba —Col. ROOSEVELT'S throat still bothers him so much that he can scarcely talk. How quiet it must be in England under such circumstances. But still those lovely teeth are to be seen. a nominee of your party and then go out and vote to get him a place on the ticket. ~King GEORGE, of England, is said to have a very red nose and up to this min- ute every writer who has commented on it seems to have forgotten that indigestion quite often affects the nasal appendage in —President TAPT will find that it was a great deal easier to revise the tariff upwards than it will be to make the pub- lic believe that BALLINGER is all right. You can fool the people some times, but not always. —Probably the future will solve the big navy problem for itself. We are informed that the new dreadnaughts are to cost eighteen million dollars each. If this is the price to-day a few years from now they may be too high even for Uncle SaM’s long arm. - ==If s0 many of the Pennsylvania Re- publicans are determined to defeat Sena- tor OLIVER for re-election why wouldn't they be turning their efforts in a still better direction by including Senator ‘PENROSE in that determination and get- ting rid of him also. ~The Virginia, Minnesota, Enlerprize preaches a whole sermon in a paragraph when it says: “The idea of teaching every girl to thump the piano and every boy to be a book keeper will make pota- toes worth eight dollars a barrel in another twenty years.” And so it will. —A few wise heads get together and decide that railroad freight rates are too low, then the ninety million rest of us have to get together and raise the extra hundred million dollars necessary to keep business moving. Even the new PAYNE- ALDRICH tariff bill wouldn't do that. —Philadelphia philanthropists are plan- ning a campaign to protect the infants of that city against “summer complaint." Just what is to be done is a secret as yet, but there are those who think that the North American has engaged Dr. COOKE to take them all up to the North Pole until October. —Those big automobiles that the PATTONS and the EMERYS had over here last week might have been brought along merely to impress the observers with the idea that if either one of the owners are picked to go to Washington Uncle Sam wouldn't be asked to provide them with one out of the public pocket book. —‘“Tt can only condense and fade away, as the end of an active tail always does,” says Prof. FROST in speaking of the comet's appendage. It is well to bear this bit of expert advice in mind, so that you may realize how little some wise men know about “active” tails when you chance to meet a pole-cat on the high- way. —For sensations the old BARNUM and Baney shows still lead. They burned down their big tent a day or so ago even of the acrobats are not winning fame in the sawdust ring. —HETTY GREEN, once the richest wom- an in the world and still possessed of enough pelf tobuy mostanything in sight, has just been convicted in a suit for rent of $550 and costs. She is a notorious old miser and the public will be glad to know that someone has been able to separate her from her money even if they did have to invoke the law’s aid in doing so. ~Mr. PATTON, himself, and Mr. EMERY’S son spent most of last week visiting in Centre county. Of course both were after votes for the congressiona! nomi- nation and it looks as though the Republi- cans of Centre are more or less divided. While many of them feel very kindly toward Mr. PATTON there are quite a few who regard him as a Regular aspirant and they prefer to be counted among the Insurgents, because it looks as though the Insurgents in the next Congress will be the members who get the plums. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT to the highest pin- In unanimously renominating Hon. GEORGE M. DIMELING for State Senator the Democrats of the Thirty-fourth dis trict will pay just tribute to fitness and fidelity. Senator DIMELING'S record is a credit to himself and an honor to his con- stituency. Always on the job, keen of intellect and earnest in the service of the people his voice and vote were ever ready to respond to the call of duty. With an alert conscience he intuitively took the right side of every question and from the beginning of the session of 1907 until the close of that of 1909 it is safe to say that he never got on the wrong side of any measure, whether viewed from the point of politics, morals or economics. Senator DIMELING is a Democrat, though not of the narrow, partisan type, and naturally aligned himself with his Demo- cratic colleagues on party guestions. But there are many measures of a non-partisan character considered at each session of the General Assembly, some of which are good and some vicious. It can be said without fear of contradiction, that Senator DIMELING never once got on the wrong side of such measures and that he was as faithful to his moral as he was true to his political obligations. To put up a candi- date for nomination against a man with such a record would have cast an asper- sion upon the character of his constitu- ents. It would imply an indifference to honesty and courage. It would require too much space to give Senator DIMELING'S actions in detail on the legislation considered in the Senate while he was a member of that body though we have taken the trouble to look it up. It is sufficient to say that his vote is recorded in favor of no bad measure or against no meritorious bill. He was the consistent and courageous enemy of every bill which proposed the needless increase of offices, the profligate increase of salaries and the useless increase of expenses. He could see a parliamentary snake the mo- ment it entered the chamber and he never failed to give it a blow when the oppor- tunity presented itself. Pinch and graft bills are his pet antipathies. Senator DIMELING opposed at every stage the bills to enlarge the capitol park at the cost of three or four million dol- lars to the people. He opposed the mon- strous attempt to pervert the public school department into a political machine and resisted at every step legislation which increased the chances of predatory cor- porations to oppress or despoil the public or in any way discriminate against the people and in favor of monopoly. But with al! his zeal and energy in fighting such legislative iniquities he was always held in the highest respect by such of his political opponents as held patriotism above partisanship and aimed to conserve the interests of justice. It was not accidental, therefore, that Governor STUART named Senator DIME- LING on the commission to revise the elec- tion laws of the State. It is true that under the provision of the joint resolution creating that commission, it was necessary to name one Senator of the minority. But there were eleven Democrats in the Senate most of whom had been longer in service than Mr. DIMELING. But the Gov- ernor understood, and all of Senator DIMELING'S Democratic knew, that he was especially fitted for that im- portant service because of his acute intel- ligence, unyielding courage and uncom- promising devotion to high ideals. We congratulate ~ nator DIMELING and the people on the rtainty of his re-election. S —— Decadence or Something Worse. When a preacher of the gospel or a professor of the christian religion exalts nacle of merit the incongruity implied is startling. Preachers of the gospel are supposed to be disciples of the Prince of Peace. THEODORE ROOSEVELT is the spirit of war incarnate. He is a man of blood. His pleasures are in the destruc: tion of life. His paramount desire is to kill. He slaughters, not to provide food or guarantee the safety of others but to gratify his passion to destroy life. It is STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. sycophancy among the people. It has be- | come a rule in Congress to exempt the | President from criticism as it has become | a rule among the newspapers to praise | those in authority whether they merit it | or not. That was not always the case, | however. There was a time that no one was high enough or influential enough to | escape just censure and it would be bet- ter if that were the case now. Manly men are not stifled by power. The Troubles of Senator Penrose. That Senator PENROSE is experiencing a good deal of mental anguish on account of conflicting claims for the gubernatorial nomination there can be no doubt. The friends of Lieutenant Governor MURPHY, Pittsburg, and thus prevented an exposure of the gravest consequences, he was in- ferentially promised the nomination and QuAY's promise to Colonel WATRES, as yet unfulfilled, is a sort of mortgage upon the machine. Mr. PENROSE knows, how- ever, that the nomination of either of these gentlemen means disaster but he doesn’t know exactly how to avoid those obligations and get a candidate who will serve his purpose and fool the people. But these are not all of Senator PEN- ROSE'S troubles or even the greater of them. The senatorial situation is also a disturbing element at this time. His col- league, Mr. OLIVER, never was a favorite in the party and now he appears to be more unpopular than ever. PENROSE lit- erally can’t get out of supporting OLIVER and every day adds to the volume of op- position to his re-election. It will be just twenty years next January since Senator J. DoNALD CAMERON practically sacrificed himself in an effort to make Mr. OLIVER'S brother, the late HARRY W.,, a Senator in Congress. CAMERON was under much the same obligation to that gentleman then that PENROSE is to GEO. T. now and it would not be surprising if the memory of that contest is a disturbing element. The Independent Republicans of the State are very much averse to the re- election of OLIVER and appear tobe busy making plans for his defeat. This may easily be accomplished if energy and in- telligence are invested in the enterprise. In the present General Assembly there are 212 Republicans and only 45 Democrats. It is conservatively estimated, however, that the Democrats will have 100 votes on joint ballot in the next Legislature, which would reduce the Republican ma- jority to a trifle more than 50. The In- dependent Republicans confidently believe that they will be able to elect enough anti-machine Senators and Representa. tives to break this majority and prevent an election as was done in the case of QUAY at the session of 1899. Not on the Right Lines. The Pennsylvania Society for the pre- vention of tuberculosis is working ener- getically, if not intelligently, to promote its purpose and fulfill its self-imposed but useful mission. It has enlisted the labor organizations in the work and at a meet- ing held in Philadelphia, the other night, one of the speakers said: “Picture what it means to have 2,000,000 children har- nessed to the wheels of industry, cut off from sunshine, fresh air and all that makes for health in the next generation.” That spectacle is too abhorrent to con- template. Such a condition is a crime against humanity. But it is not the en- tire or even the principal cause of the in- crease of tuberculosis. That dread malady is attributable main- ly to the want of proper protection against a rigorous and treacherous climate. Chil- dren need warm, woolen clothing during the inclement seasons and failure to pro- vide them withsuch sows the seeds of the dread white plague. It is well enough, of course, to employ every available means of mitigating the evil. But it would be infinitely better to remove the source. In other words the labor organiza- tions and philanthropists should unite in a movement to entirely abolish or greatly reduce the tariff taxes on wool and the an uncommon and certainly anything but | an admirable temperament. But there is even a greater incongrui«! ty, if that is possible, in the laudation of | President TAFT as an honest man. Even those who reprobate his environment qualify their criticism with the apology that he is an honest man whose amiabil- ity is imposed upon. But every act of his official life proves that he is a grafter. He not only accepts but solicits emolu- ments forbidden by the constitution and he hucksters the patronage of his office like a fishmonger. He is insincere, selfish and in every respect sordid. There is nothing in his actions that indicates the finer feelings of the cultured gentleman. Probably this mistaken admiration for ROOSEVELT and TAFT is attributed to the : such a cheapening of the price of woolen immediate and certain result would be fabrics that people could be properly clothed. Under existing conditions only the very wealthy can indulge the luxury of flan. nels. The average citizen is deluded into the absurd belief that he is buying woolen clothes when he pays a fair price for an admirable imitation. But unless he pays more than the average man can afford he is getting nothing but shoddy which has neither the warmth nor the durability of wool. But the wealthy sheep raisers of the West and the predatory trust magnates of New England multiply profits and bask in the sunshine of prosperity while the children shiver and absorb the germs of tuberculosis which are in the chill air. decadence in popular sentiment or possi- bly it may be ascribable to a developing BELLEFONTE, PA. MAY 27, 1910. Good intentions are all right for pave- ments in hot climates. The Johnstown Democrat reveals a sur- prising irascibility in replying to the WATCHMAN'S recent reference to its bad habit of untimely criticising leaders of its own party, if it acknowledges allegiance to any party. “MEEK shows his teeth" our Johnstown contemporary observes, when, as a matter of fact the editor of the WATCHMAN simply revealed his “bowels of compassion” for an erring brother, and pointed out the path which he might have followed. The Democrat has been assailing Congressman WiLsoN for his vote on the lumber schedule of the ALD- RICH tariff bill, to the palpable enjoyment of ELias DEEMER and his Williamsport , a Democrat, has twice defeated Mr, DEEMER, a Republican, and incidentally planted in Mr. DEEMER’S bosom an implacable re- sentment. Mr. WiLsoN is a Democrat representing a Republican district and is certain to be the nominee of his party for re-election. A change of a few hun- dred votes at the coming election might defeat Mr. WILSON'S re-election and re- store the seat in the National Legislature to the Republican party and the vote to Speaker CANNON. The criticisms of the Democrat, invariably reprinted in Mr. Deemer’'s Williamsport paper, might in- fluence thoughtless voters who are guided by impulse rather than by reason, to vote against WILSON. The Democrat justifies this pernicious activity in the interest of Senator PEN- ROSE’S party machine on the ground that it must be consistent. It reprobates Re- publicans who vote contrary to its ideas of right and therefore professes that in order to be consistent it must be equally censorious against Democrats who offend it in the same way. Persistency in wrong action on the part of a Representative would justify such treatment, but to pur- posely, or stupidly overlook the fact that one fault is less damaging than a thousand and assume that because a man has made one amiable mistake he must be sacrificed in the interest of another who makes a theusand is without either excuse or rea- son. It may look like ‘consistency but it is also folly. Dr. JOHNSON once said that “patriotism is the last resort of a scoun- drel." A more récent, though probably less illustrious philosopher has added that “consistency is the shelter of a coward." The accuracy of Dr. JOHNSON's adage has been proven a thousand times. The Democrat proves that the other axiom is equally exact. Having gotten in wrong our contemporary hasn't the moral cour- age to acknowledge its error and hopes to vindicate itself by sacrificing, not only its party but the principles it professes to support. If Congressman WILSON is re- elected the party is certain to have a faithful and capable advocate on every issue except one. If he is defeated the opponents of the party will have a champion of every iniquity which the greed of graft and the lust for power, can invent. In this unreasonable attitude toward Mr. WiLsoN, however, the Democrat ex- hibits no malice. It is simply fatuous, though harmful. But in trying to make Mr. MUNSON responsible for Mr. WiL- SON'S action in Congress and deliberately misrepresenting the language he used at the harmony meeting of the Democratic State Central committee on April 7th, our contemporary becomes malevolent. It knows, if it knows anything, that while it may be the duty and privilege of private citizens to hold high officials responsible for their actions,at the time and under the circumstances, the public criticism of Mr. WiLson by Mr MUNSON, would have been both impertinent and out of place. But even if the Democrat is a trifle cloudy on that point, it must know that there is no excuse, other than that which a high- wayman offers for his crimes, for deliber- ately misquoting Mr. MUNSON or infer- entially attributing to him sentiments which he did not utter. At the harmony meeting referred to, Mr. MUNSON said that he had not been as active in the party organization as he ought to have been and that he had not borne his share of the burden, either of expense or labor. But he did not say that he had “sulked in his tent,” or was out of sympathy with the organization, the candidates or the prin- ciples of his party. He has been a busy man, absorbed in the work of his profes- sion, like hundreds of others who are now awakening to duty, but he has never been recreant. —Former residents of Centre county now located in Ohio will hold their an- nual reunion on July 4th at the farm resi- dence of J. D. Dannley, Medina, Ohio, stop 77, C. & S. W. electric line. Any further information can be had by writing to Mrs. J. D. Daanley, R.F. D,, No. 3, Me- dina, Ohio. ~GIFFORD PINCHOT'S home coming may be regarded as merely the arrival of the advance agent of the big show. A Tradition in Ruips. IC pay det, oi sites. of will ly regret the astounding and porn og ie Be | I 8 g E i } j il : Ip ggEEEs : i SEs i 2 gat ] | : i ht : i il LH § J fl i i RE : i i hi 7 | g ! : i : § f : g | Be fi FE i i 5 = i i 5 rtherance of that conspiracy, he Sortad to acts and siatements that were neither honorable nor in with the For it is of this that President Taft has been guilty. This is what he tried to make the pub- That he sat as an experienced and able pe 7 ef inger t verdict thus pre- Finguage, nd & a portion of fhe {dentical 3 its arrangemen Sequence of throughout, dic- tated the result to his secretary as his own verdict, and signed his name thereto! The President was an unfair judge. He : “Tiiid; Leistito From the Harrisburg Star-Independent. It Jools ae If Uncle Ben. Poeht, the repressi nion county about to suffer the pangs of a victim politiedl ingratitude. After valuable time in the service of as a first termer in Congress, he is imminent peril of | a nomination for another term. There 87 SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~—About $450 was realized in the recent tag day of the Ladies’ auxiliary of the Johnstown Young Men's Christian association. y . ~The Cambria Steel company at Johnstown has received an order from the Harriman lines for 1.315 steel cars for fall delivery. —Two proprietors of a cut-glass concern were inLock Haven recently looking over the field with the idea of probably locating a plant there. ~John Frank of Osceola, while returning from his work at a mine, was run over by a coal train and killed almost instantly. He was aged 63 years, and is survived by a widow, one son and three daughters. ~The Clearfield County Bar association recent- ly acted unanimously in favor of the purchasing ofthe G.L. Reed homestead, at the corner of Market avenue and First streets, as 2 site for a new court house. =One of the best gas wells found in Greene county was brought in on the Mathias Morris costs, by a justice of the peace at Allentown. The prosecution was brought by a game warden. —When the time for closing bids on the $100,000 bond issue of the Johnstown Water company came, recently, it was found that the amount had been largely oversubscribed and it will be nec- Sxary to 4pporntivn the awards among the bid- ~More bark is being taken on wagons to the plant of the Elk Tanning company at Newport this season than in any other season on record. In one day recently 151 tons, almost twice as much » previous record, were taken to the ~Emil Otto Bohn, the youngest of two sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Bohn, of which he and his brother were playing. Both children were burned. =J.G. Smiley, a car inspector at the union containing $2.700 in cash and negotiable notes. He turned the find into the office and it was later returned to its owner. —Clearfield borough has an assessed valuation of $2,931,734, according to the triennial assess ment returns just completed at the commission- ers’ office. The people will be expected, during the year 1910, to pay into the county, borough Sud 5h00l distzist treanties, the sum of $87, 951.72. ~It is stated on reliable authority that the Buf- falo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad company inthe near future will begin the erectionofa steel coal chute at DuBois, to replace the present one, with which it is impossible to coal engines advantageously. The new affair will cost in the ~ | neighborhood of $80,000. Several tracks are to be changed. —While Harry Mills was driving with a load of coal across the bridge leading from South Philipsburg to the brick works recently, the struc- ture gave way and precipitated the wagon, team, driver and forty bushels of coal to the creek be- low. Mills and the horses escaped with scratch- es and the wagon was damaged only slightly. The coal was lost. —Charles Fry, one of the foremost fancy chick- en-raisers of Huntingdon, for two months lost a large number of little chicks in an inexplicable | manner. Recently, however, the clouds of mys. Bory rolied away, when he discovered the thief to be ablowing viper, three and a half feet long. The snake was killed and the chickens since have been left in peace. —Attorneys for Architect Huston have filed demurrers to the actions in equity brought by the attorney general's department at Harrisburg to recover $5,000,000 for the commonwealth from persons and firms connected with the capitol's furnishing contracts. The papers declare suit should not be brought in equity. The arguments are set for September. —The burgess and chief of police of Coatesville are at cross purposes concerning the manner in which the fourth of July shall be celebrated. The burgess wants a wide open celebration, while the chief declares he will arrest all persons who violate the ordinance relative to firing explosives. ~—Cumberland Valley farmers are finding old potatoes dead stock on their hands, and have a great many bushels in the bins. Last fall when the potatoe market was high they held their tubers for better prices, and now that the market is this one, and Mrs. Schaeffer would have lost her estate if defeated. —Such a shock did the death of his brother, Michael Haverty, prove to Patrick Haverty, of Pottsville, that he fell dead Monday as Michael's remains were being borne to the cemetery. When the latter's death occurred, last week, Patrick was prostrated and had to take to his bed. He was so ill that he could not attend the funeray and succumbed to heart disease as the cortegeto the cemetery took up its solemn march. The news of the sudden death reached the mourners while they were beside the open grave in the cemetery. =That a big subterranean river flows in Somer- set county, near the Somerset & Cambria branch of the Baltimore & Ohio, is the theory advanced by L. E. Chapin, of Pittsburg, a consulting engi- neer, who had been called before the Somerset council on the water problem. He bases his be- lief in the existence of the river on numerous holes drilled in the bottom land north of Somer- set, which have proved to be flowing wells. The first of these wells was put down as a test hole for coal ten years agoand it has been flowing ever since. Other borings also have proved to be flow- ing wells when the strata overlying the supsosed river has been penetrated. It is thought that the river is two miles wide, owing to the distance apart of certain wells. The stream is supposed to flow northeast, and to supply numerous springs that supply Stonycreek river, flowing into Johns.
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